Have you ever listened to a favorite symphony or concerto and wondered what life experiences and inspiration shaped the composer’s ideas, how the orchestra players reacted upon first reading the new score or how the composer felt as musicians finally gave sonic life to notes on paper?
When you commission a new work of music through LACO’s Sound Investment program, you can get your own answers, straight from the artist’s mouth.
Each season, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra commissions and premieres a new piece of music composed especially to suit its unparalleled musical talents. Creating a legacy in music, members of Sound Investment each contribute $250 (or more) toward the composer’s fee and costs of the premiere concerts. As an “investor,” you and a guest will be invited to a series of intimate salons where you can meet the composer, hear excerpts of the score-in-progress and attend a full orchestral rehearsal of the completed work. Along the way, you’ll gain an insider’s view of the creative process through lively and thought-provoking conversations with the composer. Membership also includes a pair of tickets to a premiere performance of the work you helped create.
about the composer
Winner of two of the contemporary music world’s most prestigious prizes – the Grawemeyer and the Charles Ives Living awards – New York native George Tsontakis has been named the ninth recipient of the LA Chamber Orchestra’s Sound Investment commission. A member of the faculty of the Aspen Music School, Tsontakis is also a composer-in-residence at Bard College and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, which commissioned and premiered a new work from him for the re-opening of the famed Alice Tully Hall in February 2009. Esteemed composer David Del Tredici describes Tsontakis’ work as music that is “full of heart, a quality that erases boundaries as it satisfies and enriches the soul,” and The Village Voice hails his “heroic, nostalgia-free romanticism.”
concert info
The world premiere of George Tsontakis’ Sound Investment commission will be performed Saturday May 15, 2010 at the Alex Theatre and Sunday May 16, 2010 at Royce Hall. More Information.
salon info
Each Sound Investment member (and a guest) is invited to participate in three interactive salons throughout the 2009-10 season. Exact dates and times TBD.
contact info
Contact Michelle Weger, director of institutional giving, at 213 622 7001 × 203 or michelleweger@laco.org for more information about joining Sound Investment.
